More Drugs The Problem, Not The Solution

Is anyone surprised that patients prescribed addictive medications become addicted? Once addicted, the next step is street drugs. This is often followed by treatment with more drugs, including suboxone. Will this work if the cause of the addiction remains unresolved? Or is it simply more drugs the pharmaceutical industry profits from instead of the drug dealers?

Many conditions, including pain relief, are treatable without drugs if patients are educated on addressing the cause and not just the symptoms. Health insurance companies are pushing patients in that direction by covering more preventive alternatives including acupuncture, naturopathic medicine, physical therapy, etc. But these efforts are working against an entire culture of medicine that has trained the public to believe that whatever their ailment, there's a pill for it. How can patients who are constantly told there is a drug for everything learn not to seek a drug?

Sadly, today's business of medicine often neglects to correct the cause of conditions and instead only adds another pill to a patient's overprescribed list of meds.

Savvy patients must find their own way to therapies that treat the cause of their ailment and therefore the condition itself.